Taste, Representation, and the Art of Cuisine (Part 2)

by Dwight Furrow Much philosophical writing about food has included discussions of whether and why food can be a serious aesthetic object, in some cases aspiring to the level of art. These questions often turn on whether we create mental representations of flavors and textures th … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 48 minutes ago

How Rasputin Inspired the “Fictitious Persons” Disclaimer Commonly Seen in Movies

“This is a work of fiction,” declares the disclaimer we’ve all noticed during the end credits of movies. “Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.” In most cases, this may seem so trivial that it hardly merits a mention, but the … | Continue reading


@openculture.com | 48 minutes ago

Root Cause Health: Robin Berzin, MD On Functional Medicine, Longevity For Women, GLP-1s, Hormone Therapy, & Utilizing Lifestyle For Long-Term Well-Being

Dr. Robin Berzin is the Founder and CEO of Parsley Health, and a paradigm-shifting force in primary care who’s made functional medicine accessible to millions. This conversation explores the interplay between modern healthcare and her approach to healing, which emphasizes treatin … | Continue reading


@richroll.com | 49 minutes ago

Homeowner discovers legal loophole allowing them to avoid HOA's strict landscaping rules: 'No more mowing for me'

"Most HOA's have very poorly drafted agreements that are not legitimate, legally binding documents." Homeowner discovers legal loophole allowing them to avoid HOA's strict landscaping rules: 'No more mowing for me' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 49 minutes ago

The Shocking Moment When a Group of Confederate Spies Plotted—and Failed—to Burn Down New York City

Southern operatives tried to light New York businesses on fire and bring the Northern city to its knees on this date in 1864 | Continue reading


@smithsonianmag.com | 49 minutes ago

Do any infectious diseases have a 100% fatality rate?

Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for some of them still elude us. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 49 minutes ago

Daily post-it notes as stop motion diary

Daren Jannace animated 30 frames per day for one year and then put… Tags: Daren Jannace, post-it | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 55 minutes ago

'Easy, convenient, cheap': How single-use plastic rules the world

Each year the world produces around 400 million tonnes of plastic waste, much of it discarded after just a few minutes of use. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 59 minutes ago

‘We lost’: How COP29 ended with a deal that made the whole world unhappy

Under pressure to step up global climate aid, the world’s richest countries secured nothing less than a diplomatic coup in Baku. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 1 hour ago

EuroMed 2024: the 10th International Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage

2nd-4th December 2024, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, CYprus Organized by Photoconsortium’s member Cyprus University of Technology, conference EuroMed 2024 offers the Cultural Heritage community the opportunity to come together and exchange our know-how, explore our r … | Continue reading


@digitalmeetsculture.net | 1 hour ago

Plastics: lifesaver turned environmental threat

Before it threatened biodiversity, the oceans and the global food chain, plastics saved lives and transformed societies as a durable, malleable and cheap material. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 1 hour ago

Earth bids farewell to its temporary 'mini moon' that is possibly a chunk of our actual moon

Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that's been tagging along as a "mini moon" for the past two months. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 1 hour ago

As baboons become bolder, Cape Town battles for solutions

On a sunny afternoon in Cape Town's seaside village of Simon's Town, three young chacma baboons cause a commotion, clambering on roofs, jumping between buildings and swinging on the gutters. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 1 hour ago

“One-of-a-Kind” Fossil Discovery Could Solve the Mystery of Modern Bird Intelligence

A newly identified fossil bird, Navaornis hestiae, from the Mesozoic Era has provided crucial information about the evolutionary development of bird brains, connecting ancient species like Archaeopteryx to today’s birds. A remarkable fossil discovery could transform our understan … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 1 hour ago

Trump has vowed to kill offshore wind energy — but it might not be easy

A giant wind farm off the Louisiana coast will be hard to derail. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 1 hour ago

State announces $3 million in community grants for vital outdoor program: 'Essential benefits ... are available to more people'

At least 770,000 people throughout these communities in the state will reap the benefits. State announces $3 million in community grants for vital outdoor program: 'Essential benefits ... are available to more people' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Petrol industry embraces plastics while navigating energy shift

Amid the inexorable shift toward more electric vehicles, oil and gas producers are looking increasingly to plastics to help keep them afloat, even if that sector faces challenges of its own. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 1 hour ago

'Existential challenge': plastic pollution treaty talks begin

A final round of talks on a treaty to curb plastic pollution opened on Monday, with deep differences between nations emerging almost immediately. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 1 hour ago

TYPO3 Conference 2024

I am invited to speak at the TYPO3 Conference this week and have also been part of the jury this year. Thanks for the kind invitation! I knew it is going to be tough as it is conference seasons right now and we ran SmashingConf New York and Antwerp, I ran beyond tellerrand Berlin … | Continue reading


@marcthiele.com | 1 hour ago

Is there a market(place)?

Not all needs have a market (yet). A market is a category. A market is a place with competition. In a market, people have habits and budgets and social pressure to engage. There are buyers and sellers. In many cultures, there’s a market for all the items that go with a quinceaner … | Continue reading


@seths.blog | 1 hour ago

Sony’s making a handheld console to compete with Nintendo and Microsoft

The new console will build on the Playstation Portal (pictured) which was reportedly originally intended to work as a standalone device. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Sony is currently making a new handheld gaming console that allows users to play PlayStation 5 g … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 1 hour ago

How the world gave up on 1.5 degrees

A decade after the Paris Agreement, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton trace how we've kept on with business as usual. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 1 hour ago

5 New Books Coming Out This Week

Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage (Blackstone) “Everything I want in a thriller. Sexy, shocking, and tense with an ending I never saw coming. Jeneva Rose is the queen of twists.” –Colleen Hoover Mike … | Continue reading


@crimereads.com | 1 hour ago

Digging Deep, Staying with It: James Sallis on Writing, Reality, and the Danger of Creative Work

When publishers feel the urge to put out a retrospective of an author’s short stories, they often cherry-pick a handful of representative works—the literary world’s equivalent of a greatest-hits album. Then you have Soho Crime, which decided the lauded crime writer James Sallis d … | Continue reading


@crimereads.com | 1 hour ago

The 5 Most Chilling Sherlock Holmes Stories That Are Not ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’

The moody world of Sherlock Holmes tends to exist in our minds a certain way; wrapped in a perpetual fog and gaslight of Victorian London. And yet, the most famous Sherlock Holmes book, The Hound of the Baskervilles hardly takes place in London at all, and Holmes himself is absen … | Continue reading


@crimereads.com | 1 hour ago

7 of Fantasy Fiction’s Best Criminals

Sometimes, the criminal makes the book. The books that follow are personal favorites of mine, and some of them have classic criminals as villains, but many more of them have us rooting for the criminals, despite, or sometimes even because of, their crimes. Vin Venture, from The F … | Continue reading


@crimereads.com | 1 hour ago

EUA launches Universities Futures Lab podcast

The European University Association’s latest podcast series, launching November 2024, tells you about futures thinking and foresight and how to use it for university strategy development. Hosted by Thomas E. Jørgensen and Anna-Lena Claeys-Kulik from EUA’s Policy Coordination and … | Continue reading


@sciencebusiness.net | 1 hour ago

Dev containers in Machine Learning

Docker has become extremely popular nowadays. It is lightweight, portable, self-contained, and thus great for microservices architecture. Docker containers make it easier to build software and isolate the environment, and they can be run in many different environments with differ … | Continue reading


@softwaremill.com | 1 hour ago

Poem by Jim Culleny

Damocles In perilous times we join the otherworld, the one that’s outside our bubble who’s driving this bus? who’s at the helm? who jiggles the joystick? we man our posts we soothe ourselves but one day must come to terms: I saw a cormorant, wings spread drying herself in the win … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 1 hour ago

🔗 How We Choose Technologies at PostHog

About programming, AI and devops | Continue reading


@yellowduck.be | 1 hour ago

Royal Navy helps rare turtle species return home after being blown off migration course: 'All were dehydrated and emaciated'

"We were unsure if they were going to make it overnight." Royal Navy helps rare turtle species return home after being blown off migration course: 'All were dehydrated and emaciated' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 283

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 283. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Hidden […] | Continue reading


@eclecticlight.co | 1 hour ago

The Very Online Culture Wars

The Very Online Right might be riding high now, but I anticipate that the election jackpot of the moment will not last and that this victory will soon look more like Las Vegas at noon, beaten down and tawdry under the merciless exposure of the midday western sun. | Continue reading


@frontporchrepublic.com | 1 hour ago

This chart will cheer you up

Are you feeling jittery about the future of the U.S. clean energy transition? Consider this. Renewable energy in the U.S. has grown steadily over the last 20 years. Look at this chart of wind and solar expansion — you’d be hard-pressed to pick out where a Democratic administratio … | Continue reading


@canarymedia.com | 2 hours ago

In North Carolina, conservative clean energy supporters aren’t worried

Mark Fleming has a prediction for those terrified about the impact of a second Trump administration on the clean energy transition: “It’s going to work out better than folks think.” Fleming is head of Conservatives for Clean Energy, a Raleigh-based nonprofit that brings together … | Continue reading


@canarymedia.com | 2 hours ago

Will Trump’s plan to kill the EV tax credit help China?

As the incoming Trump administration prepares to make aggressive cuts to government spending, one major provision of the landmark Inflation Reduction Act appears to be on the chopping block: the consumer tax credit for purchasing an electric vehicle. President-elect Donald Trump … | Continue reading


@canarymedia.com | 2 hours ago

Resident sparks debate online after discussing major issue in America's use of nuclear energy: 'All people remember is Chernobyl'

Nuclear fission's rival, fusion, is considered the "holy grail" of clean energy for scientists. Resident sparks debate online after discussing major issue in America's use of nuclear energy: 'All people remember is Chernobyl' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

14 Self-Portraits by Pablo Picasso Show the Evolution of His Style: See Self-Portraits Moving from Ages 15 to 90

15 years old (1896) It’s possible to look at Pablo Picasso’s many formal experiments and periodic shifts of style as a kind of self-portraiture, an exercise in shifting consciousness and trying on of new aesthetic identities. The Spanish modernist made a career of sweeping dramat … | Continue reading


@openculture.com | 2 hours ago

This Stunning Galaxy Holds the Key to Cosmic Mysteries

NGC 2090, featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope image, is a key galaxy in recalibrating the Hubble constant. Positioned 40 million light-years away, its unique spiral structure and ongoing star formation provide insights into galaxy evolution, enhanced by observations fr … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 2 hours ago

The Primary Energy Fallacy

Everyone has some idea of how much energy an ICE vehicle uses. After all, if you’re putting fuel in and then seeing how much you can drive before it needs fuel again, you know that you’re pumping a certain amount in. Add in the knowledge of other things a gallon ... [continued] T … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 hours ago

At least five interesting things: The new conservative era (#53)

Conservative poll shift; Democratic machine politics; science and politics; some good news; better teachers; the AI slowdown; consumer confidence | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 2 hours ago

The Best Spy Thriller of the Year Might Be Too Good for Us

'The Agency,' the Showtime adaptation of the French spy series 'The Bureau,' is thoughtful and thrilling in equal measure. | Continue reading


@inverse.com | 2 hours ago

Exploding interstellar space rocks could explain mystery radio flashes

Enigmatic phenomena called fast radio bursts might be caused by interstellar objects colliding with highly magnetised neutron stars | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 2 hours ago

City officials partner with company to battle disastrous flooding — here's how it could impact local storm response

So far, the system has successfully kept every drop of floodwater out of homes in the area. City officials partner with company to battle disastrous flooding — here's how it could impact local storm response first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

438: Jon Galloway - From Submarine Office to Software Developer

James sits down with Jon Galloway to talk about his journey from submarine office to software developer and community advocate. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord Music : Amethyst Seer - … | Continue reading


@mergeconflict.fm | 2 hours ago

Weekly Update 427

I was going to write about how much I've enjoyed "tinkering" with the HIBP API, but somehow, that term doesn't really seem appropriate any more for a service of this scale. On the contrary, we're putting in huge amounts of effort to | Continue reading


@troyhunt.com | 2 hours ago

Nested monads

You can stack some monads in such a way that the composition is also a monad. This article is part of a series of articles about functor relationships. In a previous article you learned that nested functors form a functor. You may have wondered if monads compose in the same way. … | Continue reading


@blog.ploeh.dk | 3 hours ago

Proud resident shares before-and-after photos after participating in city planting program: 'I need to see about something like this in my area'

"What an awesome project." Proud resident shares before-and-after photos after participating in city planting program: 'I need to see about something like this in my area' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago